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Bio On Shakespear
Number of Words: 374 / Number of Pages: 2
... in London around 1592. His first play he wrote was in 1593, it was called Venus and Adonis. He became a "gentleman" after inheriting his fathers coat-of-arms, even though actors were generally looked at as rogues and vagabonds. He probably wrote his 154 sonnets during this time as well. They were published later on in 1609. His success in London made him very wealthy so he moved into a large home in Stratford. Some of his plays were: Henry VI, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, and Romeo and Juliet, Richard ...
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Robinson Crusoe
Number of Words: 1542 / Number of Pages: 6
... beasts and natives. A Portuguese ship finally rescued them and they sailed for Brazil.
In the new land Crusoe established a prosperous sugar plantation. But again a feeling of lonely dissatisfaction overcame him: "I lived just like a man cast away upon some desolate island, that had nobody there but himself."
Then came an offer from some planters for Crusoe to act as a trader on a slave ship bound for Africa. But this voyage also met disaster: fierce hurricanes wrecked the ship, drowning everyone aboard except Robinson, who was finally tossed up on a desolate beach.A subsequent storm washed the sh ...
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Biogrophy Of Dostoevsky
Number of Words: 927 / Number of Pages: 4
... mother's teachings. The anger that he felt towards God for taking his father away from him is evident in the character Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov, like Dostoevsky, does not understand how a loving God can bring so much suffering to the world. The childhood suffering of having only one parent is also demonstrated by Adelaida Ivanovna, who "left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovich with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband's hands." Dostoevsky felt abandoned by his father, much like Mitya was abandoned by her mother.
In 1838 Dostoevsky entered ...
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Benjamin Franklin: A Man Of American Ideals
Number of Words: 889 / Number of Pages: 4
... working dominate most of his time.
Aside from being diligent, frugality and the simplicity of life have been an important part of Franklin’s life as evident from the following passage.
We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance my breakfast was a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon (873).
Having fancy dinner plates and silverwares is something that seldom interests Franklin. Practical issues are what concern him the most. Although he is raised in a pious family, he rejects hi ...
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Ulysses S. Grant
Number of Words: 1676 / Number of Pages: 7
... the end of the war he was promoted to first lieutenant for his skill and bravery. Grant's experiences in the Mexican War taught him lessons that will later help him during the Civil War.
Grant was almost 39 years old when the Civil War began in 1861. He strongly opposed secession and as soon as war broke out he knew he had a duty to fight for the Union. He had been retired from the Army for seven years, but when President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers, Grant rejoined the Army as a volunteer on April 23, 1861. He then went to Springfield where he worked for the Illinois adjutant genera ...
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William DeKooning
Number of Words: 1596 / Number of Pages: 6
... place in the downtown art scene among his fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York. Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in Europe and one in America. He combined classical European training in Holland with a love for popular American culture. The restlessness and energy of American life was a source of great ...
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Jane Erye
Number of Words: 862 / Number of Pages: 4
... by his Grandpa and give it to his father and passed to Kino it was the one thing of value he owned in the world. Kino found a pearl a silvery pearl he seemed to saw the great oyster for the first time. His wife was so very excited when he saw the pearl and she could not want to hold it. Before he found the pearl he heard the song of the pearl but in the song there was a secret, little inner song., hardly perceptible, but always there sweet and secret and clinging.
The town lay on a broad, zstuary, its old yellow plastered buildings hugging the beach. On the beach the hungry dogs and the hungr ...
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Dante Alighieri 2
Number of Words: 882 / Number of Pages: 4
... and politics. He influenced Italian society and culture through his poetry and his prose (Dante Internet). His writings helped to unify the Italian language. His opinions on politics were new and many of his ideas are seen in today’s politics (Holmes 23). These are the three key areas in which Dante was so influential.
Dante’s writings had a great impact on Italian literature, both in the nature of the topics and the style of the prose. His writings have been hailed “the pillars on which the European literary tradition has been built” (Dante: The Divine… Internet) ...
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Comaparison And Contrast Of Chapters In Understanding Organi
Number of Words: 1195 / Number of Pages: 5
... government in 1967. Albini starts off by reminding the reader that by no means was Cressey an organized crime expert, on the contrary he was merely a social scientist with which the government feed crime statistics for interpretation. Added to this was the tight time restraint given to Cressey along with witnesses willing to divulge information they knew Cressey wanted to hear. Albini ends with a list of faults in Cressey’s work, that including a later book Cressey wrote entitled Theft of A Nation, were Cressey merely reemphasized past ideas without expanding a great deal, contributing to a cr ...
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John Locke 3
Number of Words: 1640 / Number of Pages: 6
... In the fall of 1647 John was admitted to a tough course of
studies under the school's headmaster, Dr. Richmond Busby.
This was Locke's first enrollment at a school away from his
home. This experience would be a major building blocks for his
career. During his schooling he was educated in Doctrines of
Political Liberty. This was one of the topics in the Locke's
home when he wasn't at school. John's father was also a
political philosopher. He loved to go into great detail about
society's state of mind by the way they elect their government
representatives. As you can see the Lo ...
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